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Dunbar, PA

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Overview


Dunbar is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 990 people and just one neighborhood, Dunbar is the 828th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Dunbar was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dunbar is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.04% of the Dunbar workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dunbar is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dunbar who work in office and administrative support (12.14%), healthcare (8.85%), and sales jobs (6.58%).

A relatively large number of people in Dunbar telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Dunbar’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Dunbar is worth considering.

Being a small borough, Dunbar does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Dunbar have a very low rate of college education: just 9.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Dunbar in 2018 was $27,720, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,880 for a family of four. However, Dunbar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dunbar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dunbar residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dunbar include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Dunbar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.5% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dunbar are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 43.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.6%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Dunbar, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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